Bradford Children and Families Trust

Children’s Services

Children’s Social Care

Newly Qualified Social Worker (ASYE) - ASYE 2024

£32,076 - £33,945 pa - SO1 - SCP 23-25

Established

Based: Bradford District 

Newly Qualified Social Worker – Assessed and Supported Year in Employment

• Do you recognise social injustice?
• Did you become a social worker to make a difference to someone’s life? 
• Are you ready to put what you have just spent 3 years studying into practice?

If this is you then we would love you to join likeminded social workers in Bradford Children’s services who are willing to go that extra mile every day to support others who, at that time, need it.

Bradford is a city that has a richness of culture and diversity and is unlike other surrounding city’s; this means that the social work experience is varied and unique with the opportunity to work with lots of different communities with all the rewards and challenges that brings.

We understand the importance of having Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) as part of our established workforce to ensure that there is a succession of passionate individuals working with our children, young people and their families.

We also understand that for you to be able to do your job you need to be supported and given the space and time to learn how to do this well through practical experience, learning and development opportunities, good supervision and opportunities to reflect.  We introduced the Bradford ASYE Academy in 2022 to increase the learning and development opportunities available for our NQSWs. 

You will sit within the academy for the first 3 months of employment whilst also being linked to your host team. 

We also have Practice Supervisors who work with our ASYE’s within the teams to offer dedicated support and are the ASYE assessor; we have a dedicated ASYE Practice Lead who has oversight of the Academy.

Alongside NQSWs who are looking for their first role we are also accepting applications from students on their final placements to start in our later Academy’s.  We will start you as a Community Resource Worker when you finish your qualification but waiting for your Social Worker England registration.

We can offer you the opportunity to work in our fast paced Duty and Assessment Service, our busy energetic Child and Family Service including with children with Complex Health and Disabilities, our Children in Care Teams or our Post 16, Care Leavers team; we want to match you with your interest and passion.

There are lots of benefits to working for Bradford, we can offer a competitive salary, competitive annual leave scheme, excellent pension scheme, discounted parking, discounted gym membership, regular supervision and annual appraisal and access to regular learning and development opportunities.

We know that social work is a demanding but rewarding job and we have a number of health and well-being initiatives for our staff, including mindfulness courses and health and wellbeing champions.

Every child and young person needs someone who is crazy about them – could you be one of them?

The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile which is shown in this advert, outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate.  Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application.

We are currently recruiting for our Summer 2024 - ASYE Academy cohort which starts on the 10th June 2024 and will be holding a dedicated ASYE Recruitment Assessment day/interviews on the 9th April 2024.

The Assessment day will include a number of activities including a formal job interview.

Details of the day will be sent out to successful applicants.

An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.

For more information, please contact Traci Taylor – Principal Social Worker and Service Manager for the workforce and Learning Service at Traci.taylor@bradford.gov.uk or on 07582105936 or Oliver Chrimes – ASYE Programme Lead at oliver.chrimes@bradford.gov.uk or on 07811503386.

Closing date: 31st March 2024 

Please find attached the Job Profile